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1. (U) THE FOLLOWING IS A STATMENT OF EVENTS WITNESSED AND PARTICIPATED IN BY HAROLD D. WANKEL, REGARDING THE KIDNAPPING AND KILLING
OF US AMBASSADOR ADOLPH DUBS IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN ON FEBRUARY
14, 1979. MR. WANKEL WAS APPOINTED A SPECIAL AGENT WITH THE BNDD ON
SEPTEMBER 20, 1970 AT KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. HE SERVED THERE UNTIL
JANUARY 1971 AT WHICH TIME HE WAS ASSIGNED AS A SPECIAL AGENT TO
THE DETROIT OFFICE AND REMINED THERE UNTIL JANUARY 1978. IN
JANUARY 1978 MR. WANKEL WAS APPOINTED THE DEA ASSISTANT COUNTRY
ATTACHE TO AFGHANISTAN. ON NOVEMBER 20, 1978 MR. WANKEL WAS
DESIGNATED AS THE DEA COUNTRY ATTACHE TO AFGHANISTAN, A POSITION
WHICH HE CURRENTLY OCCUPIES.
2. (C) ON FEBRUARY 14, 1979, AT APPROXIMATELY 9:10 A.M. I OVERHEARD
A CONVERSATION AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY CONCERNING AMBASSADOR DUBS.
THE SUBSTANCE OF THE CONVERSATION WAS THAT AMBASSADOR DUBS HAD
JUST BEEN ARRESTED BY KABUL POLICE OFFICERS NEAR THE USICA OFFICES
IN KABUL. IT WAS STATED THAT THE AMBASSADOR HAD BEEN STOPPED
AND DETAINED BY POLICE' WHILE HE WAS BEING DRIVEN TO WORK BY HIS
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AFGHAN CHAUFFEUR.
3. (C) SOMETIME LATER IN THE MORNING IT WAS STATED AT THE AMERICAN
EMBASSY THAT THE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
ABDUCTION OF AMBASSADOR DUBS. AT THE SAME TIME I HEARD THE RUMOR
THAT TERRORISTS HAD ABDUCTEDAMBASSADOR AND TAKEN HIM TO THE
KABUL HOTEL.
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4. (C) AT APPROXIMATELY 11:45 A.M., WARREN MARIK, AMERICAN EMBASSY
OFFICER, AND MYSELF DROVE IN MY VEHICLE TO THE AREA OF THE KABUL
HOTEL. I PARKED THE CAR A BLOCK AWAY FROM THE HOTEL WHICH WAS
NECISSITATED BECAUSE KABUL POLICE HAD THE KABUL HOTEL AND BORDERING
STREETS CORDONED OFF. WE WALKED TO THE HOTEL WHERE WE WERE STOPPED
BY POLIC AND DETAINED FOR A FEW MINUTES UNTIL OUR IDENTITIES WERE
ESTABLISHED AND OUR PRESENCE IN THE HOTEL APPROVED BY OTHER AMERICAN
EMBASSY OFFICERS AT THE HOTEL. OUTSIDE THE HOTEL WERE NUMEROUS
POLICE OFFICERS ALONG THE SIDEWALK. I SAW THREE OFFICERS WITH AUTOMAT
IC
RIFLES DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET ON THE BALCONY OF A BANK. THIS
BALCONY WAS APPROXIMATELY THE LEVEL OF THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE HOTEL.
4. (C) WARREN MARIK AND I ENTERED THE HOTEL LOBBY AT APPROXIMATELY
12:04 P.M. A FEW MINUTES LATER MR. MARIK, MYSELF, MICHAEL MALINOWSKI
AND DR. ROTZ CARRIED A MEDICAL STRETCHER UPSTAIRS (ONE FLOOR) TO
A FOYER AREA LOCATED APPROIXIMATELY 75 FEET FROM ROOM 117 WHERE
I WAS TOLD THE AMBASSADOR WAS BEING HELD BY TWO AFGHAN TERRORISTS
BELIEVED TO BE ARMED.
5. (C) IN THE FOYER AREA WERE RSO CHARLES BOLES AND EMBASSY OFFICER
BRUCE FLATIN, AS WELL AS FOUR INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED TO ME BY
WARREN MARIK AND OTHERS, AS SOVIET ADVISORS. ONE SOVIET ADVISOR WAS
TALL, APPROXIMATELY 6'2", BALDING AND WAS WEARING A BLACK TRENCH
COAT. ONE OTHER ADVISOR WAS SHORT, 5'8"-5'9" AND WAS WEARING A HAT
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AND TRENCH COAT. OF THE OTHER TWO ADVISORS, ONE HAD SALT AND PEPPER
HAIR AND THE OTHER WAS BLOND. PRESENT, IN ADDITION TO THE AMERICANS
AND SOVIETS, WERE NUMBEROUS AFGHAN POLICE OFFICERS, SOME OF WHICH
I KNOW PERSONALLY. AMONG THEM WERE: EXECUTIVE SECRETARY TO POLICE
COMMANDANT TAROON (I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME), TAROON'S PERSONAL
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE INTERPRETER (I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME. YOSUF
SAHAR, CHIEF OF THE ANTI-SMUGGLING UNIT, AND GUL MOHAMMED ANDAR,
CHIEF, CID, I WOULD ESTIMATE AT LEAST 20 AFGHAN OFFICIALS IN VARIOUS
LOCATIONS ON THE SECOND FLOOR. THESE LOCATIONS WERE THE FOYER
AREA WHERE THE AMERICANS AND ONE OR MORE SOVIETS WERE PRESENT, THE
STAIRWAY LEADING TO THE LOBBY, AND THE AREA IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO
ROOM 117.
6. (C) SOME OF THE SOVIETS, AND IN PARTICULAR THE TALL BALDING
INDIVIDUAL, SPENT MUCH OF THEIR TIME WALKING FROM ONE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED AREAS TO ANOTHER TO CONVERSE WITH AFGHAN POLICE ABOUT THE
SITUATION. TWO OF THE SOVIETS, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE TALL BALDING ONE,
WENT TO THE HOTEL FOYER WINDOW AND SURVEYED THE BANK BALCONY ACROSS
THE STREET WHERE I HAD PREVIOUSLY NOTICED POLICE WITH AUTOMATIC
RIFLES.
7. (C) AT SOME POINT IN TIME, I BELIEVE AROUND 12:25 P.M., I HEARD
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RSO BOLES TRANSMIT OVER HIS RADIO THAT THE AFGHAN POLICE HAD DECIDED
TO RUSH THE ROOM IN 8-10 MINUTES. OVERHEARD ON THE RADIO AT THAT TIME
WERE COMMENTS FROM THE AMERICAN EMBASSY SAYING TO THE EFFECT THAT
WASHINGTON URGED NO SUCH ACTION BE TAKEN. BOLES TRANSMITTED TO
THE EFFECT THAT THE AFGHANS HAD BEEN TOLD THAT BUT WERE UNDER
DIFFERENT ORDERS. AT THIS TIME I NOTICED COMMANDOES IN FLACK JACKETS
WITH WHAT I BELIEVE TO HAVE BEEN AK-47 RIFELS MOVE INTO POSITION
NEAR THE DOOR OF 117. A PICTURE OF AMBASSADOR DUBS WAS PASSED
AROUND THE SECOND FLOOR FOYER AREA AND WAS BEING STUDIED BY
AFGHAN POLICE.
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8. (C) NEAR THIS JUNCTURE IN TIME A SMALL SLENDER INDIVIDUAL
IN CUSTODY WAS SEMI-DRAGGED/MARCHED TO THE FOYER AREA. THIS
PERSON HAD A BLANKET OVER HIS HEAD AND WAS BEING INTERROGATED
BY SOME OF THE AFGHAN POLICE. THE CAPTIVE WAS BEING ROUGHED
UP AND MAN-HANDLED BY HIS INTERROGATORS. I WAS TOLD BY AN
AFGHAN THAT THIS PERSON WAS ONE OF THE TERRORISTS THAT HAD BEEN
CAPTURED IN THE HOTEL. FROM BITS AND PIECES OF CONVERSATION I OVERHEARD, I WAS GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE TERRORISTS IN ROOM 117 WANT
ED
THE RETURN OF THEIR CAPTIVE COMRADE WITH HIS WEAPON. IT WAS FURTHER M
Y
UNDERTANDING THAT THE AFGHAN POLICE AND SOVIET ADVISORS WERE CONTEMPLATING THE RETURN OF THE CAPTIVE TO ROOM 117 AS A RUSE TO GAIN
ENTRY TO THE ROOM.
9. AT THIS TIME I OBSERVED TWO SOVIET ADVISORS WITH AN AUTOMATIC
PISTOL WALK PAST THE FOYER AREA WHERE I WAS STANDING TO APOINT
APPROXIMATELY 20 FEET DOWN THE HALLWAY TOWARD THE STAIRWAY. THERE I
OBSERVED THEM HURRIEDLY INSPECT THE PISTOL AND WORK ON IT, EITHER
TO ALTER IT SO IT WOULD NOT FUNCTION OR TO REPAIR IT SO IT WOULD
FUNCTION. AFTER A FEW MINUTES THEY GAVE IT TO AN AFGHAN POLICE
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OFFICER WHO HURRIED BACK TO THE AREA OF ROM 117 ALONG WITH THE
CAPTIVE. FOR A REASON UNKNOWN TO ME, THE CAPTIVE WAS NOT RETURNED
TO ROOM 117 BUT KEPT IN THE HALLWAY.
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10. AT APPROXIMATELY 12:45 P.M. A SOVIET ADVISOR WENT TO THE
WINDOW OF THE SECOND FLOOR HOTEL FOYER AND REPEATEDLY HELD
UP ONE HAND WIDESPREAD WHICH I TOOK TO MEAN THAT IN FIVE MINUTES
THE POLICE ON THE BALCONY ACROE STREET WERE TO FIRE AT OR
NEAR THE WINDOW OF ROOM 117 TO DRAW THE ATTENTION OF THE TERRORISTS
WITHIN ROOM 117. AT THIS TIME SEVERAL AFGHAN POLICE ARMED AND
WEARING SOME PROTECTIVE CLOTHING WERE STATIONED OUTSIDE ROOM 117.
11. (C) DUE TO THE IMMINENT ACTIONS OF THE AFGHAN POLICE, WARREN
MARIK, MICHAEL MALINOWSKI AND MYSELF WERE GIVEN LAST MINUTE
INSTRUCTIONS BY DR. ROTZ AS TO THE HANDLING OF AMBASSADOR DUBS
AND STRETCHER IN THE LIKELY EVEN HE WAS WOUNDED IN THE UPCOMING
AFGHAN POLICE RUSH OF THE ROOM.
12. (C) AT APPROXIMATELY 12:50 P.M. I SIMULTANEOUSLY HEARD WHAT I
BELIEVED TO BE THE FORCED ENTRY OF ROOM 117, SHOOTING FROM THE BANK
BALCONY AND FIRING FROM INSIDE THE HOTEL ROOM AREA OF AUTOMATIC
RIFLES OR MACHINE GUNS. THERE WAS ONE VERY LONG BURST OF FIRE AND
TWO OR THREE SHORT INTERMITTENT BURSTS. THE LAST SHORT BURST CAME
FROM WITHIN THE ROOM AND APPROXIMATELY 10 SECONDS AFTER THE PRECEEDIN
G
BURST. BEFORE THE FIRING WAS OVER A SOVIET ADVISOR REAPPEARED AT
THE FOYER WINDOW FACING THE BANK AND WAVED HIS ARMS IN A SIGNAL
TO STOP FIRING. THE SHOOTING WAS QUITE LONG. I WOULD ESTIMATE IT
LASTED 40-50 SECOND.
13. APPROXIMATELY 30 SECONDS AFTER THE FINAL BURST OF SHOOTING,
DR. ROTZ, MYSELF, WARREN MARIK AND MICHAEL MALINOWSKI RAN TO AND
ENTERED ROOM 117 WITH THE STRETCHER. I OBSERVED IN THE RIGHT
HAND CORNER OF THE ROOM THE AMBASSADOR SLUMPED OVER IN A CHAIR,
ONE TERRORIST LAYING TO HIS RIGHT AND ONE TERRORIST LAYING ACROSS
THE ROOM NEAR THE WINDOW. ALL THREE APPEARED TO BE DEAD. AMBASSADOR
DUBS HAD WHAT APPEARED TO BE WOUNDS TO THE HEAD AND BODY. DR.
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ROTZ AND I HURRIEDLY PLACED HIM ON THE STRETCHER AND MICHAEL
MALINOWSKI, WARREN MARIK AND MYSELF HURRIEDLY RAN FROM THE ROOM
CARRYING THE STRETCHER WITH AMBASSADOR DUBS. WE RAN ALL THE WAY
DOWNSTAIRS AND PLACED THE AMBASSADOR AND STRETCHER IN THE AMBULANCE
WHICH SPAY TOWARDS THE AMERICAN DISPENSARY, DRIVEN BY RSO
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BOLES. DR. ROTZ AND NURSE MARJORIE YAMAMOTO ATTENDED TO THE
AMBASSADOR IN THE REAR OF THE AMBULANCE.
14. (C) AT THIS TIME AFGHAN POLICE UNCEREMONIOUSLY CARRIED/
DRAGGED THE BODIES OF THE TWO TERRORISTS THAT HAD BEEN SHOT IN
ROOM 117 DOWN THE STAIRS THROUGH THE HOTEL FIRST FLOOR LOBBY.
ONE APPEARED TO BE MOST PROBABLY DEAD. THE CAPTURED TERRORIST WAS
ALSO BROUGHT DOWNSTAIRS BY THE POLICE. THIS TERRORIST WAS KICKING
AND STRUGGLING IN THE WAKE OF CASCADING BLOWS FROM THE NUMBEROUS
AFGHAN POLICE OFFICERS. HE DID NOT APPEAR TO BE SERIOUSLY HURT.
AT NO TIME DID I SEE A FOURTH TERRORIST EITHER ALIVE OR DEAD.
15. (C) MYSELF, WARREN MARIK AND JAY FRERES THEN WENT BACK TO THE
SCENE OF THE SHOOTING. ONE AFGHAN POLICE OFFICER DRESSED IN NATIVE
AFGHAN GARB APPEARED TO BE GIVING ROOM 117 A CURSORY EXAMINATION.
I WENT INTO ROOM 117 WHICH WAS BY THIS TIME COVERED WITH AN INCH
OF WATER FROM A RADIATOR HEATER THAT HAD BEEN RUPTURED DURING THE
GUNFIRE. THERE WERE NO GUNS OR ANYTHING ELSE LAYING AROUND THAT
WAS OF OBVIOUS EVIDENTIARY NATURE. I NOTICED THAT THE TOP HALF OF
THE INNER DOOR, WHICH WAS GLASS, WAS APPARENTLY SHOT AND THE GLASS
FRAGMENTS FOR THE MOST PART WERE IN ROOM 117 AS OPPOSED TO THE
INNER HALLWAY. I ALSO NOTICED THAT IN THE CEILING AND UPPER WALL
AREA WHERE AMBASSADOR DUBS WAS FOUND WERE SEVEN TO NINE BULLET
PENETRATIONS. THE ANGLE THAT THESE BULLETS HAD STRUCK GAVE ME
REASON TO BELIEVE THEY HAD BEEN FIRED FROM THE BANK BALCONY ACROSS
THE STREET BECAUSE OF THE LOCATION OF THE BALCONY VIS-A-VIS ROOM
117.
16. (C) THE ONLY ASSUMPTIVE STATEMENT I WOULD MAKE REGARDING THE
SHOOTING IS THAT I BELIEVE AMBASSADOR DUBS WAS SHOT AT THE OUTSET
OF THE SHOOTING. I STATE THIS BASED THE FACT THAT AMBASSADOR DUBS
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WAS FOUND SEATED ON A CHAIR LOCATED AGAINST THE WALL WITHOUT ANY
SIGNSTRUGGLE OR ATTEMPTS TO TAKE COVER WHICH I FEEL WOULD
HAVE BEEN A NATURAL REACTION IF HE HAD NOT BEEN SHOT IMMEDIATELY
WHEN THE SHOOTING BEGAN. (END OF STATEMENT)
17. (C) EMBASSY COMMENT: WE DO NOT BELIEVE IT ADVISABLE TO RELEASE
THE NAMES OF AMERICAN WITNESSES AT THE KABUL HOTEL OUTSIDE OF THE
DEPARTMENT.
AMSTUTZ
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FOR: DASS, CC/TAGS AND SAS
E.O. 12065: RDS 3 AND 4 2/25/85 (GOLACINSKI, ALAN B.) OR-A
TAGS: ASEC
SUBJECT: KIDNAPPING AND KILLING OF AMBASSADOR DUBS: STATMENT OF
HAROLD D. WANKEL, DEA OFFICER
1. (U) THE FOLLOWING IS A STATMENT OF EVENTS WITNESSED AND PARTICIPATED IN BY HAROLD D. WANKEL, REGARDING THE KIDNAPPING AND KILLING
OF US AMBASSADOR ADOLPH DUBS IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN ON FEBRUARY
14, 1979. MR. WANKEL WAS APPOINTED A SPECIAL AGENT WITH THE BNDD ON
SEPTEMBER 20, 1970 AT KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. HE SERVED THERE UNTIL
JANUARY 1971 AT WHICH TIME HE WAS ASSIGNED AS A SPECIAL AGENT TO
THE DETROIT OFFICE AND REMINED THERE UNTIL JANUARY 1978. IN
JANUARY 1978 MR. WANKEL WAS APPOINTED THE DEA ASSISTANT COUNTRY
ATTACHE TO AFGHANISTAN. ON NOVEMBER 20, 1978 MR. WANKEL WAS
DESIGNATED AS THE DEA COUNTRY ATTACHE TO AFGHANISTAN, A POSITION
WHICH HE CURRENTLY OCCUPIES.
2. (C) ON FEBRUARY 14, 1979, AT APPROXIMATELY 9:10 A.M. I OVERHEARD
A CONVERSATION AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY CONCERNING AMBASSADOR DUBS.
THE SUBSTANCE OF THE CONVERSATION WAS THAT AMBASSADOR DUBS HAD
JUST BEEN ARRESTED BY KABUL POLICE OFFICERS NEAR THE USICA OFFICES
IN KABUL. IT WAS STATED THAT THE AMBASSADOR HAD BEEN STOPPED
AND DETAINED BY POLICE' WHILE HE WAS BEING DRIVEN TO WORK BY HIS
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AFGHAN CHAUFFEUR.
3. (C) SOMETIME LATER IN THE MORNING IT WAS STATED AT THE AMERICAN
EMBASSY THAT THE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
ABDUCTION OF AMBASSADOR DUBS. AT THE SAME TIME I HEARD THE RUMOR
THAT TERRORISTS HAD ABDUCTEDAMBASSADOR AND TAKEN HIM TO THE
KABUL HOTEL.
Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014
Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014
4. (C) AT APPROXIMATELY 11:45 A.M., WARREN MARIK, AMERICAN EMBASSY
OFFICER, AND MYSELF DROVE IN MY VEHICLE TO THE AREA OF THE KABUL
HOTEL. I PARKED THE CAR A BLOCK AWAY FROM THE HOTEL WHICH WAS
NECISSITATED BECAUSE KABUL POLICE HAD THE KABUL HOTEL AND BORDERING
STREETS CORDONED OFF. WE WALKED TO THE HOTEL WHERE WE WERE STOPPED
BY POLIC AND DETAINED FOR A FEW MINUTES UNTIL OUR IDENTITIES WERE
ESTABLISHED AND OUR PRESENCE IN THE HOTEL APPROVED BY OTHER AMERICAN
EMBASSY OFFICERS AT THE HOTEL. OUTSIDE THE HOTEL WERE NUMEROUS
POLICE OFFICERS ALONG THE SIDEWALK. I SAW THREE OFFICERS WITH AUTOMAT
IC
RIFLES DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET ON THE BALCONY OF A BANK. THIS
BALCONY WAS APPROXIMATELY THE LEVEL OF THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE HOTEL.
4. (C) WARREN MARIK AND I ENTERED THE HOTEL LOBBY AT APPROXIMATELY
12:04 P.M. A FEW MINUTES LATER MR. MARIK, MYSELF, MICHAEL MALINOWSKI
AND DR. ROTZ CARRIED A MEDICAL STRETCHER UPSTAIRS (ONE FLOOR) TO
A FOYER AREA LOCATED APPROIXIMATELY 75 FEET FROM ROOM 117 WHERE
I WAS TOLD THE AMBASSADOR WAS BEING HELD BY TWO AFGHAN TERRORISTS
BELIEVED TO BE ARMED.
5. (C) IN THE FOYER AREA WERE RSO CHARLES BOLES AND EMBASSY OFFICER
BRUCE FLATIN, AS WELL AS FOUR INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED TO ME BY
WARREN MARIK AND OTHERS, AS SOVIET ADVISORS. ONE SOVIET ADVISOR WAS
TALL, APPROXIMATELY 6'2", BALDING AND WAS WEARING A BLACK TRENCH
COAT. ONE OTHER ADVISOR WAS SHORT, 5'8"-5'9" AND WAS WEARING A HAT
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AND TRENCH COAT. OF THE OTHER TWO ADVISORS, ONE HAD SALT AND PEPPER
HAIR AND THE OTHER WAS BLOND. PRESENT, IN ADDITION TO THE AMERICANS
AND SOVIETS, WERE NUMBEROUS AFGHAN POLICE OFFICERS, SOME OF WHICH
I KNOW PERSONALLY. AMONG THEM WERE: EXECUTIVE SECRETARY TO POLICE
COMMANDANT TAROON (I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME), TAROON'S PERSONAL
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE INTERPRETER (I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME. YOSUF
SAHAR, CHIEF OF THE ANTI-SMUGGLING UNIT, AND GUL MOHAMMED ANDAR,
CHIEF, CID, I WOULD ESTIMATE AT LEAST 20 AFGHAN OFFICIALS IN VARIOUS
LOCATIONS ON THE SECOND FLOOR. THESE LOCATIONS WERE THE FOYER
AREA WHERE THE AMERICANS AND ONE OR MORE SOVIETS WERE PRESENT, THE
STAIRWAY LEADING TO THE LOBBY, AND THE AREA IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO
ROOM 117.
6. (C) SOME OF THE SOVIETS, AND IN PARTICULAR THE TALL BALDING
INDIVIDUAL, SPENT MUCH OF THEIR TIME WALKING FROM ONE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED AREAS TO ANOTHER TO CONVERSE WITH AFGHAN POLICE ABOUT THE
SITUATION. TWO OF THE SOVIETS, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE TALL BALDING ONE,
WENT TO THE HOTEL FOYER WINDOW AND SURVEYED THE BANK BALCONY ACROSS
THE STREET WHERE I HAD PREVIOUSLY NOTICED POLICE WITH AUTOMATIC
RIFLES.
7. (C) AT SOME POINT IN TIME, I BELIEVE AROUND 12:25 P.M., I HEARD
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RSO BOLES TRANSMIT OVER HIS RADIO THAT THE AFGHAN POLICE HAD DECIDED
TO RUSH THE ROOM IN 8-10 MINUTES. OVERHEARD ON THE RADIO AT THAT TIME
WERE COMMENTS FROM THE AMERICAN EMBASSY SAYING TO THE EFFECT THAT
WASHINGTON URGED NO SUCH ACTION BE TAKEN. BOLES TRANSMITTED TO
THE EFFECT THAT THE AFGHANS HAD BEEN TOLD THAT BUT WERE UNDER
DIFFERENT ORDERS. AT THIS TIME I NOTICED COMMANDOES IN FLACK JACKETS
WITH WHAT I BELIEVE TO HAVE BEEN AK-47 RIFELS MOVE INTO POSITION
NEAR THE DOOR OF 117. A PICTURE OF AMBASSADOR DUBS WAS PASSED
AROUND THE SECOND FLOOR FOYER AREA AND WAS BEING STUDIED BY
AFGHAN POLICE.
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8. (C) NEAR THIS JUNCTURE IN TIME A SMALL SLENDER INDIVIDUAL
IN CUSTODY WAS SEMI-DRAGGED/MARCHED TO THE FOYER AREA. THIS
PERSON HAD A BLANKET OVER HIS HEAD AND WAS BEING INTERROGATED
BY SOME OF THE AFGHAN POLICE. THE CAPTIVE WAS BEING ROUGHED
UP AND MAN-HANDLED BY HIS INTERROGATORS. I WAS TOLD BY AN
AFGHAN THAT THIS PERSON WAS ONE OF THE TERRORISTS THAT HAD BEEN
CAPTURED IN THE HOTEL. FROM BITS AND PIECES OF CONVERSATION I OVERHEARD, I WAS GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE TERRORISTS IN ROOM 117 WANT
ED
THE RETURN OF THEIR CAPTIVE COMRADE WITH HIS WEAPON. IT WAS FURTHER M
Y
UNDERTANDING THAT THE AFGHAN POLICE AND SOVIET ADVISORS WERE CONTEMPLATING THE RETURN OF THE CAPTIVE TO ROOM 117 AS A RUSE TO GAIN
ENTRY TO THE ROOM.
9. AT THIS TIME I OBSERVED TWO SOVIET ADVISORS WITH AN AUTOMATIC
PISTOL WALK PAST THE FOYER AREA WHERE I WAS STANDING TO APOINT
APPROXIMATELY 20 FEET DOWN THE HALLWAY TOWARD THE STAIRWAY. THERE I
OBSERVED THEM HURRIEDLY INSPECT THE PISTOL AND WORK ON IT, EITHER
TO ALTER IT SO IT WOULD NOT FUNCTION OR TO REPAIR IT SO IT WOULD
FUNCTION. AFTER A FEW MINUTES THEY GAVE IT TO AN AFGHAN POLICE
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Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014
OFFICER WHO HURRIED BACK TO THE AREA OF ROM 117 ALONG WITH THE
CAPTIVE. FOR A REASON UNKNOWN TO ME, THE CAPTIVE WAS NOT RETURNED
TO ROOM 117 BUT KEPT IN THE HALLWAY.
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10. AT APPROXIMATELY 12:45 P.M. A SOVIET ADVISOR WENT TO THE
WINDOW OF THE SECOND FLOOR HOTEL FOYER AND REPEATEDLY HELD
UP ONE HAND WIDESPREAD WHICH I TOOK TO MEAN THAT IN FIVE MINUTES
THE POLICE ON THE BALCONY ACROE STREET WERE TO FIRE AT OR
NEAR THE WINDOW OF ROOM 117 TO DRAW THE ATTENTION OF THE TERRORISTS
WITHIN ROOM 117. AT THIS TIME SEVERAL AFGHAN POLICE ARMED AND
WEARING SOME PROTECTIVE CLOTHING WERE STATIONED OUTSIDE ROOM 117.
11. (C) DUE TO THE IMMINENT ACTIONS OF THE AFGHAN POLICE, WARREN
MARIK, MICHAEL MALINOWSKI AND MYSELF WERE GIVEN LAST MINUTE
INSTRUCTIONS BY DR. ROTZ AS TO THE HANDLING OF AMBASSADOR DUBS
AND STRETCHER IN THE LIKELY EVEN HE WAS WOUNDED IN THE UPCOMING
AFGHAN POLICE RUSH OF THE ROOM.
12. (C) AT APPROXIMATELY 12:50 P.M. I SIMULTANEOUSLY HEARD WHAT I
BELIEVED TO BE THE FORCED ENTRY OF ROOM 117, SHOOTING FROM THE BANK
BALCONY AND FIRING FROM INSIDE THE HOTEL ROOM AREA OF AUTOMATIC
RIFLES OR MACHINE GUNS. THERE WAS ONE VERY LONG BURST OF FIRE AND
TWO OR THREE SHORT INTERMITTENT BURSTS. THE LAST SHORT BURST CAME
FROM WITHIN THE ROOM AND APPROXIMATELY 10 SECONDS AFTER THE PRECEEDIN
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BURST. BEFORE THE FIRING WAS OVER A SOVIET ADVISOR REAPPEARED AT
THE FOYER WINDOW FACING THE BANK AND WAVED HIS ARMS IN A SIGNAL
TO STOP FIRING. THE SHOOTING WAS QUITE LONG. I WOULD ESTIMATE IT
LASTED 40-50 SECOND.
13. APPROXIMATELY 30 SECONDS AFTER THE FINAL BURST OF SHOOTING,
DR. ROTZ, MYSELF, WARREN MARIK AND MICHAEL MALINOWSKI RAN TO AND
ENTERED ROOM 117 WITH THE STRETCHER. I OBSERVED IN THE RIGHT
HAND CORNER OF THE ROOM THE AMBASSADOR SLUMPED OVER IN A CHAIR,
ONE TERRORIST LAYING TO HIS RIGHT AND ONE TERRORIST LAYING ACROSS
THE ROOM NEAR THE WINDOW. ALL THREE APPEARED TO BE DEAD. AMBASSADOR
DUBS HAD WHAT APPEARED TO BE WOUNDS TO THE HEAD AND BODY. DR.
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ROTZ AND I HURRIEDLY PLACED HIM ON THE STRETCHER AND MICHAEL
MALINOWSKI, WARREN MARIK AND MYSELF HURRIEDLY RAN FROM THE ROOM
CARRYING THE STRETCHER WITH AMBASSADOR DUBS. WE RAN ALL THE WAY
DOWNSTAIRS AND PLACED THE AMBASSADOR AND STRETCHER IN THE AMBULANCE
WHICH SPAY TOWARDS THE AMERICAN DISPENSARY, DRIVEN BY RSO
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BOLES. DR. ROTZ AND NURSE MARJORIE YAMAMOTO ATTENDED TO THE
AMBASSADOR IN THE REAR OF THE AMBULANCE.
14. (C) AT THIS TIME AFGHAN POLICE UNCEREMONIOUSLY CARRIED/
DRAGGED THE BODIES OF THE TWO TERRORISTS THAT HAD BEEN SHOT IN
ROOM 117 DOWN THE STAIRS THROUGH THE HOTEL FIRST FLOOR LOBBY.
ONE APPEARED TO BE MOST PROBABLY DEAD. THE CAPTURED TERRORIST WAS
ALSO BROUGHT DOWNSTAIRS BY THE POLICE. THIS TERRORIST WAS KICKING
AND STRUGGLING IN THE WAKE OF CASCADING BLOWS FROM THE NUMBEROUS
AFGHAN POLICE OFFICERS. HE DID NOT APPEAR TO BE SERIOUSLY HURT.
AT NO TIME DID I SEE A FOURTH TERRORIST EITHER ALIVE OR DEAD.
15. (C) MYSELF, WARREN MARIK AND JAY FRERES THEN WENT BACK TO THE
SCENE OF THE SHOOTING. ONE AFGHAN POLICE OFFICER DRESSED IN NATIVE
AFGHAN GARB APPEARED TO BE GIVING ROOM 117 A CURSORY EXAMINATION.
I WENT INTO ROOM 117 WHICH WAS BY THIS TIME COVERED WITH AN INCH
OF WATER FROM A RADIATOR HEATER THAT HAD BEEN RUPTURED DURING THE
GUNFIRE. THERE WERE NO GUNS OR ANYTHING ELSE LAYING AROUND THAT
WAS OF OBVIOUS EVIDENTIARY NATURE. I NOTICED THAT THE TOP HALF OF
THE INNER DOOR, WHICH WAS GLASS, WAS APPARENTLY SHOT AND THE GLASS
FRAGMENTS FOR THE MOST PART WERE IN ROOM 117 AS OPPOSED TO THE
INNER HALLWAY. I ALSO NOTICED THAT IN THE CEILING AND UPPER WALL
AREA WHERE AMBASSADOR DUBS WAS FOUND WERE SEVEN TO NINE BULLET
PENETRATIONS. THE ANGLE THAT THESE BULLETS HAD STRUCK GAVE ME
REASON TO BELIEVE THEY HAD BEEN FIRED FROM THE BANK BALCONY ACROSS
THE STREET BECAUSE OF THE LOCATION OF THE BALCONY VIS-A-VIS ROOM
117.
16. (C) THE ONLY ASSUMPTIVE STATEMENT I WOULD MAKE REGARDING THE
SHOOTING IS THAT I BELIEVE AMBASSADOR DUBS WAS SHOT AT THE OUTSET
OF THE SHOOTING. I STATE THIS BASED THE FACT THAT AMBASSADOR DUBS
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WAS FOUND SEATED ON A CHAIR LOCATED AGAINST THE WALL WITHOUT ANY
SIGNSTRUGGLE OR ATTEMPTS TO TAKE COVER WHICH I FEEL WOULD
HAVE BEEN A NATURAL REACTION IF HE HAD NOT BEEN SHOT IMMEDIATELY
WHEN THE SHOOTING BEGAN. (END OF STATEMENT)
17. (C) EMBASSY COMMENT: WE DO NOT BELIEVE IT ADVISABLE TO RELEASE
THE NAMES OF AMERICAN WITNESSES AT THE KABUL HOTEL OUTSIDE OF THE
DEPARTMENT.
AMSTUTZ
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Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014
Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014
Sheryl P. Walter Declassified/Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 20 Mar 2014